{"id":4735,"date":"2019-08-20T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"south-africa-is-second-highest-producer-of-sulphur-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/20\/south-africa-is-second-highest-producer-of-sulphur-dioxide\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Is Second-Highest Producer Of Sulphur Dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Pumza Fihlani<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study has found that a town in South Africa\u2019s\nMpumalanga province has one of the highest Sulphur dioxide emission rates in\nthe world, second only to nickel smelters in Norilsk town in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenpeace commissioned the study using Nasa satellites to\ntrack Sulphur dioxide emissions around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpumalanga province is home to 12 coal power stations &#8211;\nwith the highest concentration in the town of Kriel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa\u2019s government has declared the town a \u201cpriority\narea\u201d because of the environmental risk from air pollution there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s electricity is mainly produced from coal and\nenvironmentalists have raised concerns about Sulphur dioxide gas produced by\npower stations, and the health risks to communities living near them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A previous study by Greenpeace found that Mpumalanga province\nalso has one of the world\u2019s highest rates of nitrogen dioxide &#8211; which has been\nlinked to breathing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South African government is already being sued over its\nalleged failure to act on air pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s main power generator &#8211; Eskom &#8211; has\nacknowledged that more than 300 people die prematurely each year, due to air\npollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental groups say the real figure is far higher.\nRead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-47639452?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5d5a940c169570066e5111d8%26South%20Africa%20is%20second-highest%20producer%20of%20sulphur%20dioxide%262019-08-19T15%3A50%3A13.882Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:46594aa9-3c5a-4e79-9fdb-ca4dadb84f0d&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=5d5a940c169570066e5111d8&amp;pinned_post_type=share\">original\narticle<\/a> on BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pumza Fihlani A new study has found that a town in South Africa\u2019s Mpumalanga province has one of the highest Sulphur dioxide emission rates in the world, second only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}